How far do you need to live from a school in Knowsley to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 16 Knowsley schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.55 miles away; the tightest was Park Brow Community Primary School at 0.21 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Knowsley schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Knowsley schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Knowsley publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 16 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

16schools with a published figure

0.55 mithe middle school's distance

12filled within a mile

The tightest is Park Brow Community Primary School at 0.21 miles in 2026/27; the most far-reaching, St Andrew the Apostle Catholic Primary School, admitted from 1.21 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Park Brow Community Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	0.21 mi	2026/27	109%
Halewood Church of England Primary Academy Liverpool	Good	0.28 mi	2026/27	112%
Evelyn Community Primary School Prescot	No current grade	0.31 mi	2026/27	102%
St Brigid's Catholic Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	0.34 mi	2026/27	121%
St Joseph the Worker Catholic Primary School Liverpool	Good	0.4 mi	2026/27	113%
St Columba's Catholic Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	0.46 mi	2026/27	90%
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School Prescot	No current grade	0.49 mi	2026/27	111%
Ravenscroft Community Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	0.55 mi	2026/27	92%
Huyton With Roby Church of England Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	0.7 mi	2026/27	90%
Millbrook Community Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	0.83 mi	2026/27	116%
Knowsley Lane Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	0.94 mi	2026/27	103%
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	1.07 mi	2026/27	119%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Liverpool	Outstanding	1.09 mi	2026/27	96%
St Laurence's Catholic Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	1.15 mi	2026/27	111%
St Andrew the Apostle Catholic Primary School Liverpool	No current grade	1.21 mi	2026/27	115%

Secondary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
All Saints Catholic High School Knowsley	Good	0.28 mi	2026/27	102%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Knowsley measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Knowsley. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.